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BARBBD FENCE RAIL. No. 317,799. Patented May l2, 1885.

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Diarree SaTaTns FATTNT @Ti-ica IRVING A. KILMER AND MELVIN D. KILMER, OF SCHENECTADY, N. Y.

senseo Fenice-umn SPECEEECATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,799, dated May 12.', 1885.

Application filed May 27, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Invlne A. KILMER and MnLvIN D. KILMER, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Schenectady, in the county of Schenectady and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in Barbed Fence-Rails, and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is arepresenation of this invention, and is a front view. Fig. 2 is a top view lof a small portion of the fence, a part of the post being in section. The top staple securing the rail to post is also in section. Fig. 3 is a detail View, and shows the barbed rail in cross-section. Fig. 4 is also a detail view, and shows the plain rail in crosssection.

This invention has relation to fences; and its object is to provide a simple and ineXpensive metallic rail adapted to be used in connection with supporting-posts of either metal or wood.

In the accompanying drawings, the letterA designates posts or supports,to which the rails B are secured by staples C or other common fastenings engaging the bars of the rails. Each rail B is formed of a longitudinal strip 0f sheetiron, having the triangular openings D and E punched therein, said triangular openings being adjacent to each other in series and alternately erect and inverted, so that between each opening and that adjacent thereto a narrow bar, F, extends. These narrow bars F connect the upper marginal bar, G, of the rail to the lower marginal bar, H. These marginal bars are also narrow,and extend the full length of the rail, as shown. In the illustration the openings punched out are triangular; but this form may be varied without departing from our invention.

When it is desired to provide a barbed rail, this may be easily accomplished by severing a few of the small connecting-bars F at theirmiddle portions and bending the sections outward at right angles to the plane ofthe rail, as shown at K. A suflicient number of bars F should be left integral between the severed bars which form the barbs to preserve the strength of the rail.

The rails are designed to be galvanized or covered with zinc to preserve them from rusting. Their open-work form gives lightness and provides a pleasing finish, while it does not detract from their eiiciency as fence-rails. It also renders them readily apparent to cattle, which will not therefore be liable to injure themselves upon the barbs.

W'e are aware that it is not broadly new to form fence rails and palings from sheet metal,

the sheets being stamped, perforated, or cut so as to produce definite designs of more or less ornamental appearance.

Ve are also aware that itis not new to provide a metallic fence-stripwith spurs or barbs, the said barbs being raised from the sides of the strip, and therefore do not claim such devices, broadly; but,

Having described this invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

As an improved article of manufacture, the fence-rail strip composed of sheet-iron, having the longitudinal marginal bars connected by short transverse bars, which are arranged obliquely in opposite directions, so as to form alternate erect and inverted triangular openings, several of the said transversely-oblique bars being severed and the sections bent outu wardly to form barbs, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

IRVING A. KILMER. MELVIN D. KILMER. Witnesses:

Brennan FULLER, E. I. TRUAX. y 

